ChicagoCulturalCenter

I shot these pictures while working on interiors; I had alway been struck by the exhibit in the courtyard in the middle of the Chicago cultural centre.
I later found out that the work, the Piranesi Circus, was from the Chicago firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects worked with Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow on the execution and construction of the project along with Thornton Tomasetti (structural); Chicago Scenic Studios (fabrication). G.B. Piranesi’s Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) influenced the work where the large interior spaces can be considered a visual metaphor for the mind.
I wanted to focus on the individual elements by reducing the composition by limiting exposure and tonality.
I took the pictures in the summer of 2017 always around midday when the sum evenly illuminates the courtyard.
Since access to the courtyard is limited, the images were shot through the windows and provided some reflection on the inner of the building.
The cantilevered balcony lurches out into the void and challenges the observer to enter.
The use of a ladder that leads nowhere provides a recollection of dreams where the subject works in some unending loop.
The swing/trapeze hangs waiting and expresses a feeling of desire.
See also:
http://www.woodtinarch.com/2015-cab
Marguerite Yourcenar = (The Dark Brain of Piranesi)

inclination 2A scene from the interior of the Chicago Cultural Center

KibitzerA Kibitzer is a Yiddish term for a person who offers advice or commentary. This term can be applied to any activity, but it is most notably used to describe non-participant spectators

TrapezeA swing or trapeze floats alone.

Parallel bars

inclination 3

Steps

Lucid DreamsLucid dreams - I am over here - where? so tired of climbing. I often have lucid dreams in the morning, they go round and round, I don't mind them and they don't mind me. Often they are a futile errand that plays in a loop until I make coffee.